Because this will only become interesting once we have a critical mass. 50k MAU is far from if. If we grow 10% YoY, we will certainly lose out to someone else who is willing to grow faster.
For all “Reddit’s troubles” last year, they still managed to have revenue growth of 21% to more than $800 million.
That won’t change until the front-end gets more development and features (…) not necessarily due to a lack of content.
I really disagree. Yeah, there are many issues to solve, but content is king and we simply don’t have it. The current experience with Lemmy can be summarized as:
Two Minutes Hate “news” communities: where everyone tries to out-do each other on their display of rage at $rich_person, $the_other_party and $big_corporation
Meta-discussions about the Fediverse, like this one.
It’s only appealing for the terminally online. There is nothing for normies to be minimally curious about. The reason that, e.g, my wife, still has Facebook installed and never cared about installing a Lemmy client is not because of “technical challenges” but Facebook has groups that she likes to follow and nothing interesting to her here.
I do not think more content alone would be sufficient.
I have actual data that support the idea that more content can create a virtuous cycle. People loved to complain about alien.top “spamming their feed”, but when the mirror bots were active, the numbers of “organic participation” and subscriber count was increasing faster than the most popular communities on the bigger instances. I kept quiet about it to avoid “inverse Streisand effect” (like the haters pontificating about “these communities are only bots” and spoiling for those who actually didn’t care about interacting with it).
Because this will only become interesting once we have a critical mass. 50k MAU is far from if. If we grow 10% YoY, we will certainly lose out to someone else who is willing to grow faster.
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For all “Reddit’s troubles” last year, they still managed to have revenue growth of 21% to more than $800 million.
I really disagree. Yeah, there are many issues to solve, but content is king and we simply don’t have it. The current experience with Lemmy can be summarized as:
It’s only appealing for the terminally online. There is nothing for normies to be minimally curious about. The reason that, e.g, my wife, still has Facebook installed and never cared about installing a Lemmy client is not because of “technical challenges” but Facebook has groups that she likes to follow and nothing interesting to her here.
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Fediverse communities, yes. “News”, not at all.
See how fast the number of active users drop.
So we agree that we need to have more users, no?
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I have actual data that support the idea that more content can create a virtuous cycle. People loved to complain about alien.top “spamming their feed”, but when the mirror bots were active, the numbers of “organic participation” and subscriber count was increasing faster than the most popular communities on the bigger instances. I kept quiet about it to avoid “inverse Streisand effect” (like the haters pontificating about “these communities are only bots” and spoiling for those who actually didn’t care about interacting with it).
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